PiggyBot

Meet PiggyBot®

Category	Price	Seller	Device
Education	Free	Kasasa LTD.	iPhone, iPad, iPod

The only parent-designed, kid-tested allowance app that helps kids spend, share, and save smart. PiggyBot is a fun, easy way to track allowance spending and saving. No missed allowance, no forgetting IOUs, just money smarts turned fun!

Instead of cash, your kids have a virtual balance with you. Think of it as an IOU. Each child will have separate Spend-It, Share-It, and Save-It accounts. You decide how to allocate their allowance.

Kids can set goals, take pictures of things they want, share money, and more. When they save enough, we call them a "Goal Getter!" And there’s a fun screen to show off the items they purchased, reinforcing principles of saving for wants, needs, and nice-to-haves. It’s a virtual piggy bank that pays off in real life!

This free app is just one way we give families the tools you need to talk about smart spending, smart sharing, and smart saving. PiggyBot is brought to you by Kasasa® – free checking accounts that reward you. Not available at big banks. For good reason.

It’s never too early for smart money management. Download PiggyBot today!

Note: We recommend setting up PiggyBot on your device to encourage spending, sharing and saving discussions between you and your child(ren). Then you'll always have PiggyBot close at hand!

Reviews

Would love more features!
Heathy Fitness Girl

Hi! This is a great app but I would love to see the ability to share between two parents!

Stopped working
Cadcmu

I’ve enjoyed using this app. However recently stopped working. One of my children disappeared. The icon is not there but can still click on it and access his profile. But I’ve paid allowance and logged expenditures and they’re not saving. Since October 13.

Really, great until it started working only halfway
nikki578

I’m having the same problem as Cadcmu. One of my children’s profiles has “ghosted” - it’s there like a placeholder but it’s invisible without the gear frame or their pic. Also even though I’ve faithfully logged their allowance every week for YEARS, that particular child’s profile shows no history saved since after 11/3/18. But I think the balances are still up to date (go figure). Wish they would respond more quickly and thoroughly to bug issues (emailed but no response as of yet).

Love
Rested me

We’ve been using this app for several years. It is so easy for me and my kids to track money that comes from grandparents, good grades, chores, etc. I told so many people about this… My only request would be that I can see what we’ve done in the past. Requires that I enter timely.

Needs a few things added
tanyaleb

Overall good app. I would like a few features added. First, it would be helpful to have a transfer option where a child could transfer money between spend, save, and charity. With parent permission of course. It gets confusing when money is taken out of savings, it just dissapears, so is the parent supposed to put it onto spend themselves? My son found that confusing.second, it would be awsome if a master bank account could be set up on parent phone and then each child would have their own account on their phones and the parent could see childs requests. So for instance, if my son requested to spend his money on a toy, he could put in a request on his phone and the parent would see it on their phone. Similarly, my daughter could request to spend her money on makeup and i could see it on my phone and approve/deny request. Lastly, it would be helpful to see the items that kids are requesting to save for, like toys, etc. without having to log into their phones. Like kids could share that they are saving for a toy, etc.

Disappointing
Tjaney561

This app only allows the parents to control the amounts. And there is not option for entering info daily. My daughter has been working as a mother’s helper and we were looking for a way for her to see and calculate her “spend save share” while having it monitored by us. We were excited to find this app thinking she would be able to login on her device as the child and us on ours as the parent. We were disappointed it doesn’t work that way.

Great, but needs multiple device support
MattL123

I wanted to switch over instead of using a Google spreadsheet but without being able to share across devices so the adults and kids are all on the same page, I’m going to stick with that.

App is fantastic - Mom of 3, used app for 5 years
The Queen 3

I’m a mom of three active kids. Started using this when my oldest entered 9th grade, middle in 6th grade and little one in third. The app is graphically fun for them, and teaches them how to think of their money. Swiping their money (allowance or otherwise earned) was always fun for them. They would upload pictures of things they were saving for and the app shows them how much progress they’ve made towards their goal. I like being able to see each of the transactions that has gone into the account - when my kids say they haven’t been paid I can show them they had been paid! It’s like a low key Venmo between you and your kids. If they want a souvenir on a trip that we think is ‘extra’ they will just say ‘Take it out of my piggy bot’. My oldest is now going to be a sophomore in college and she still has her buckets - spend, share, save. Love this app. It’s really helped me manage allowances and other stuff and taught my kids about saving (40%) and spending (50%) and sharing (10%) - (these are the %’s I set up for my kids allowance but you can do whatever you want in the app)

Please make an iPad app!
KH 80

I love using this app for allowance and chores- since I rarely have cash on hand anymore- but I wish there was an iPad version so that my kids could log in and check their balances and chores without having to borrow my phone!